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Scoria Cones on Earth and Mars

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Scoria Cones on Earth and Mars

March 2, 2026

Since the 1970s, planetary geologists have known that volcanic features cover large swaths of Mars. Early Mariner 9…

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sees Martian ‘Spiderwebs’ Up Close

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sees Martian ‘Spiderwebs’ Up Close

February 24, 2026

For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called…

An overhead color view of the Martian surface shows rough and varied terrain in shades ranging from golden tan to electric blue. At upper left, the ground appears more flat and cratered than other areas of the image, and is colored dark grayish-blue with highlights of silver and tan. The upper right corner of the image looks like wavy sand dunes, in shades of dark blue with bright silvery highlights, except for one apparent ridgeline that stands out as an elongated S-shape in electric blue. The bottom half of the image shows more mountainous terrain that gets lighter and more gold-colored nearer the bottom of the frame. A pair of smooth valleys run diagonally between the peaks, from around the center of the image toward the bottom-left corner; the upper one is a shade of silvery blue and the bottom one is a grayish-gold, and both have ridges lining their upper walls, looking like lines of sharp teeth biting into the valleys.

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One of NASA’s Key Cameras Orbiting Mars Takes 100,000th Image

December 16, 2025

Mesas and dunes stand out in the view snapped by HiRISE, one of the imagers aboard the agency’s…